Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Have you ever wanted to apply <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision">Cloud Vision API</a> to videos? Well, <a href="https://twitter.com/SRobTweets">Sara Robinson</a> is here to tell your co-hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> about <a href="https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/">Cloud Video Intelligence API</a>, which allows you to do that and much more.</p> <h5 id="about-sara-robinson">About Sara Robinson</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/SRobTweets">Sara</a> is a Developer Advocate on Google’s Cloud Platform team, focusing on big data and machine learning. She helps developers build awesome apps through demos, online content, and events. Sara has a bachelor’s degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University.</p> <p>When she’s not programming she can be found on a spin bike, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, or finding the best ice cream in New York.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Getting started with Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/Getting-started-with-Cloud-Identity-Aware-Proxy.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>Distributed tracing for Go <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/distributed-tracing-for-Go.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>220,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/220000-cores-and-counting-MIT-math-professor-breaks-record-for-largest-ever-Compute-Engine-job.html"> blog post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning updates <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/03/announcing-google-cloud-video-intelligence-api-and-more-cloud-machine-learning-updates"> announcement</a></li> <li>Cloud Video Intelligence API <a href="https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Next Video Intelligence API demo <ul> <li>recording <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDAoLO4G4CQ">YouTube</a></li> <li>blog post <a href="https://hackernoon.com/get-the-code-for-the-video-intelligence-api-demo-794e7675effe"> Hackernoon</a></li> <li>source code <a href="https://github.com/sararob/video-intelligence-demo">GitHub</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Users we mentioned: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.cantemo.com/">Cantemo</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wixmp.com/">Wix Media Platform</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/icons/ml/video-api.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a> <p style="font-size: 0.8em;">Cloud Video Intelligence API</p> </div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Q: What is the recommended strategy for backups and restores on VMs</p> <ul> <li>Creating Persistent Disk Snapshots <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Storage Nearline <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/">docs</a></li> <li>How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-a-disaster-recovery-plan#instance_snapshots"> solution</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark is going to be hosting the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playcrafting-extra-life-game-jam-tickets-32637618997"> Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest</a>, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Finally he’ll be in Sweden for <a href="http://conf.nordicgame.com/">Nordic Games Conference</a> as well.</p> <p>He also recently published a blog post on <a href="http://www.compoundtheory.com/scaling-dedicated-game-servers-with-kubernetes-part-1-containerising-and-deploying/"> Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 1 – Containerising and Deploying</a>.</p> <p>Francesc will be presenting at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/gdgnyc/events/234963739/">New York Google Developer Group</a> for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M90t0KvEDY">Just for Func episode</a>, covering the implementation of the Context package!</p>
